Hey guys, Mike Rowe here. This is the way I heard it. My guest today is the one and only

Johnny Joey Jones. Chuck, why do people say the one and only in front of certain individuals,

but not others? In all fairness, there probably is another guy named John Joey Jones out there.

Probably. You would, with those three.

But I think it's just too, they're the one that most people know.

I think it's more.

I think it's like, of all the Johnny Joey Joneses that are surely out there, this is the one and only one that I'm going to have on the podcast.

He's the one and he's also the real one,

you know, and you know how you're the real Mike Roe on Facebook. If he were sitting right here in front of me,

right this second, I would not describe him as an American hero because he's the kind of guy that

would take off one of his prosthetic legs and hit me over the head with it for calling him such a thing.

But he is heroic to me, not just because of the injuries he's sustained in Afghanistan

and the way he's overcome them.

But for the way he's really built an identity around the business of celebrating other people

in a way that's not icky or earnest or saccharin,

but just honest and compelling.

And it's really been fun to watch him become the one and only Johnny Joey Jones.

I got to tell you that about five minutes into the episode, I wrote down one word,

and then I didn't write anything else down except for potential titles, and that one word was

humble. Yeah. Yeah, if you can fake that, man. You got it made. Not only is he genuinely

humble and gracious, but you'll hear really, calamity might be overstating it. But this was

such a rough morning for me personally. And I'm not going to wallow in my own self-pity. But we're

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